As more and more women continue to come forward with accusations against disgraced Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, other stories of sexual assault allegations have also bubbled to the surface. On Wednesday, actress Hilarie Burton renewed a past claim that Ben Affleck had groped her breast during a visit to MTV's TRL, which she was hosting in 2003.

Affleck was one of a handful of male Hollywood collaborators to first speak out against Weinstein. In a statement Tuesday, Affleck said, in part: "I am saddened and angry that a man who I worked with used his position of power to intimidate, sexually harass and manipulate many women over decades. The additional allegations of assault that I read this morning made me sick."

Amid accusations that Weinstein, who has now been accused of raping three women, among a slew of other disturbing sexual assault claims, and his behavior was a well-kept secret in Hollywood, many actresses called on the men of Hollywood to speak up after the New York Times exposé first broke last Thursday, and then again with The New Yorker report on Tuesday. Rose McGowan, who was named in the Times story for settling a lawsuit against Weinstein, quickly took issue with Affleck's statement. "You lie," she tweeted among a series of posts that took aim at the “A-list golden boys" of Hollywood who, she claims, have long kept quiet about Weinstein's alleged transgressions.

Other users on Twitter echoed McGowan's sentiments and one recalled Burton's 2003 on-camera interview with Affleck. "He also grabbed Hilarie Burton's breasts on TRL once. Everyone forgot though," read the tweet. The post prompted a reply from the former One Tree Hill star and MTV VJ.

"I didn't forget," Burton wrote.

When the fan told her, "I’m so sorry that happened to you," Burton replied, "Seriously, thank you for that. I was a kid."

The actress, who is currently starring on Fox's Lethal Weapon reboot and expecting her second child with The Walking Dead star Jeffrey Dean Morgan, then shared a video of her discussing the alleged groping on TRL: Uncensored amid a compilation on show outtakes. (The video was pulled shortly after this story published.)

In the footage, a young Burton is seen laughing about the incident as she recalls how the A-list movie star came over during an interview and "tweaked" her breast. A clip of their sit-down shows Affleck telling her, "It's so nice to see you!" and walking over to give her a hug. "And he wraps his arm around me and comes over and tweaks my left boob!" she recalls. Later, Affleck asks Burton, "What are you, 19?"

The flashback footage is followed by Burton, who is now 35 and 10 years younger than Affleck, shrugging it off to the camera: "Some girls like a good tweakage here and there, I'd rather have a high-five."

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It might not be politically correct, but I have a hard time feeling sorry for these Hollywood skanks.

Notice a few things... like none of these people came forward for the last 20+ years and of those that did more than a few of them took huge payoffs in exchange for their silence. If you let yourself be groped by some scuzzbag for money then you are a prostitue, not a victim.

I also notice that the women coming forward here, mostly have zero career left. You don’t really see any of the big name current actresses coming forward, because they know which side of the bread gets the butter and which side lands down when it is dropped. They are keeping their mouth shut to keep their careers. Which really isn’t any better than the people taking advantage of them.

If he has been doing this for 20+ years, why is it just now that we are hearing about it? I suspect this whole thing has been manufactured to boot him out of the company. His brother and the board wanted him gone and knew he had a few skeletons in his closet and they pulled this together to get him out.

As much as I love watching Hollywood eat one of their own, there are more fishy elements to this story than a Japanese suishi bar.

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In the footage, a young Burton is seen laughing about the incident as she recalls how the A-list movie star came over during an interview and "tweaked" her breast. A clip of their sit-down shows Affleck telling her, "It's so nice to see you!" and walking over to give her a hug. "And he wraps his arm around me and comes over and tweaks my left boob!" she recalls. Later, Affleck asks Burton, "What are you, 19?"

So... he did admonish him? What was he supposed to do, clock the guy when the victim didn't complain about it until later? Maybe I'm not getting the tone but it sounds to me like he was not cool with it.

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drive into the daughter's womb proper, fill the uterus with the dick snot

A woman, when I was 17/18, walked up to me while I was photocopying documents in work. I was facing the copier and she crept up behind me, grabbing both of my bum cheeks with her hands, moving them up and down while whispering in my ear, "Hello little boy!"

I did fancy her, as she was hot, but much older than I was at the time. It was actually a shock at the time but I've never forgotten it.

I'm now waiting for the woman to become really, really famous so I can mention it.

Basically Ben shouldn't have 'tweaked' her breast or touched a woman's bum at a party. But it happens. It happens a lot. Men do it. Women do it. Women do it to other women, men do it to other men (Lesbians, gays, straights, etc).

But... it's a hunt. Everyone wants clicks. Forget the facts or watching the 'entire' video. It's all carefully edited. Did he do something wrong? HECK YEAH. Did he apologise? yes. Now, what should happen? Let the woman(en) take him to court and get the man jail time or a fine. Let's do this properly or just move on.

P.s. Ever sent a d*ck pic to a women you've just met or wanting to date? that's wrong. It's all so very wrong.

I wasn't one who said it, but the women's silence in this case allowed it to continue. The evidence we have available to us is that these women tolerated his actions to further their careers, to make money. Now, if the reason these women kept their mouths shut was to get paid more- that is pretty skanky.

This was apparently well known enough for Seth McFarlane to make a joke about it and have the audience laugh- if the audience is comfortable enough to laugh about it- what kind of people are we really talking about?

Sorry, the victim card being pulled when you have millionaires lining up around the block to come out about all the things he did.... really?

If the women who were assaulted started saying something *decades* ago- then it would have saved a whole lot of suffering. If shaming people motivates those in the future to come forward immediately, is it really a bad thing?

A woman, when I was 17/18, walked up to me while I was photocopying documents in work. I was facing the copier and she crept up behind me, grabbing both of my bum cheeks with her hands, moving them up and down while whispering in my ear, "Hello little boy!"

The same thing happened to me while I was a bit younger, it was my girlfriend's aunt in a hallway. I told everyone and did not wait to do so. Not because I was disgusted, I was flattered. Not because I was angry, I found it (Like everything else) amusing. I told everyone because I saw it as being wrong and thus it needed to be handled.

So did you fuck that office MILF?

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I think Evil is right on the money on this one. It's a behind-the-scenes power play (a coup of sorts) that has now snowballed into much more than that. I also agree that those who are coming out now with accusations really needed to do so at the time, not decades later when their careers were in the toilet and the Weinstein checks had long since cleared.

Hollywood is FILLED with this kind of depravity. I know folks don't like moralizing, but those involved in producing and selling the kind of crap pumped out by Hollywood are not going to be nuns and monks, they're going to be people driven by power, money, and sex. You will be impacted by that with which you associate (bad company corrupts good character), and getting into economic 'bed' with these folks also often means literally getting into a bed with them as well. There are some real lights in the darkness out there (Gary Sinise, Tom Hanks), but they are extreme exceptions to the rule of depraved, immoral, hedonistic filthmongers.

Hollywood is really just a focused representation of humanity in all its nastiness given enough self-satisfying idolization from others as well as power, money, and influence. They are society on the steroid of money.

What they're really terrified about now is the financial effects, not the damage they've done to real people involved in this nastiness. The facade is dropping and the silent majority of Americans, the folks whose purchases make Hollywood the slush fund that it is, may well turn against them as they have with the NFL. When you pull back the curtain and see that the emperor not only has no clothes but that he's an abusive bastard who hates you and treats folks like you like shit, you turn away and take your time, attention, and MONEY elsewhere.

So now Batfleck is in danger of being seen as Buttman...or Assman...or Grabman...or some variation thereof, possibly ruining a tentpole film that cost hundreds of millions of dollars. They're in real financial danger in Hollywood, and if this story gets killed (Twitter banning McGowan for example, NBC killing Farrow's investigative work) it will be because of the money involved and that being the only thing that counts to them.

I wasn't one who said it, but the women's silence in this case allowed it to continue. The evidence we have available to us is that these women tolerated his actions to further their careers, to make money. Now, if the reason these women kept their mouths shut was to get paid more- that is pretty skanky.

That is exactly what I'm saying, the women here all knew what was going on and most of them, including the suddenly "Holier than Thou" Rose McGowen, took money from him to stay silent and to further their careers.

Only now that they don't have careers are they suddenly all coming forward, and what is worse is that the way this kinda dropped bombshell-like all at once makes me wonder if it was engineered by someone else -- again for profits and not because of some sense of moral outrage over what has been going on in Hollywood forever and will probably continue to happen as long as people in a position of power feel that they can get away with it.

The only thing that will happen now is it will be even further behind closed doors.

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What I hate about this particular incident is she's quick to play the victim card "I was just a kid". She was 21 years old and a HOST of the show. Now she's acting like she was 12 at the time. When it probably sent her career into the stratosphere to have a big star like that pay attention to her.

Will you bite the hand that feeds?
Will you chew until it bleeds?

Still, the left cannibalizing itself thanks to their own politics is priceless!!!